Adding wordpress Blog in a Rails application

Question

I have Rails application deployed on my home root directory of a domain and symlinked with my public_html/applicationname.com/. I wanted to install wordpress in applicationn

Answer 1

You should put your blog into the rails' public directory.
That's the place for static files (and php ones are).

Answer 2

This article may be useful to anyone looking to solve this problem: http://www.spotscore.com/blog/2009/11/22/how-to-host-wordpress-and-phusion-passenger-rails-app-on-the-same-domain/

Answer 3

Check the post :

http://joomlist.com/2011/10/php-in-subdirectory-of-rubyonrails/. it worked using passenger with apache.

Answer 4

If you are deploying your rails app using Passenger then you can disable Passenger for a particular location. See section 5.8 of the documentation, which has an example for WordPress.